The Round Up Episode

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...it's the Monday after Round-Up.

The reality of returning to 8am classes may sting, but at least we have the blissful memories...or lack of Round Up memories to get us through the week. Round Up is that magical time of year that all of greek life anxiously awaits from the very start of frat season in August. It is a time in which sorority girls across campus proudly don the letters of their respective organizations in anticipation of the arrival of fledgling fratstars. You see, Round Up is really a mini-rush cleverly disguised as the frat party to end all frat parties. Each year, we rush (no pun intended) to our favors chair, check in hand, to purchase various neon goods ranging from tee shirts to fratpacks to sorority emblazoned water guns (which we are certain held something a bit stronger than water). Each girl, after having decked herself out in gear, then proceeds to give away the extras to all of the most delicious looking frat daddies that she knows. We prepare for weeks, go downtown on thursday night to stretch our livers for the weekend to come, and then the next afternoon it happens: the rushees arrive, and the partying begins in earnest.

Round Up, while it is one of the most amusing weekends of the year, is not for the faint of heart. One must brave the stampede of "randos", the inebriated stupor of young fratlings, and the inevitable frat wounds. See Picture Below:

As you can see, sacrifices must be made in order to have a successful Round Up. But fear not, little miss Ashleigh is in full recovery mode, unfortunately, cell phone number 4 did not survive the fall.

As mentioned before, the randos do come out to play during Round Up. Even though we are happy to share the wonders of being Greek, the long lines for beverages and the constant swatting away of high school boys can become a bit of a nuisance. As we have said, sacrifices must be made. However, we would like to applaud the Gamma Delta Iotas (better known as God Damn Independents), for bravely repping their "letters" and sporting the catchy phrase "GDI or Die". WE personally would chose "Die"...but to each her own.

All in all, Round Up will be greatly missed, but you won't hear us complaining about the return to regular Frat-dom. So keep your frat-packs and other frat-ccessories in a safe place, because Round Up 2011 will be here before you know it!

We leave you with these wise words of an original fratstar, Winston Churchill, "Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party."